Sentences with phrase «using hypothetical models»

Try to avoid money managers using hypothetical models if possible, as the differences can be enormous (sometimes almost double).

Not exact matches

To determine the cost - effective method of delivery, from society's perspective, in patients who have had a previous cesarean.We completed an incremental cost - effectiveness analysis of a trial of labor relative to cesarean using a computerized model for a hypothetical 30 - year old parturient.

The hypothetical supersymmetric particles, which physicists hope to discover at giant particle accelerators like the Large Hadron Collider, would be «a reflection of all the Standard Model particles, using a mirror that is slightly distorted,» explains Joseph Incandela, a physicist at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

I recently calculated hypothetical future temperatures by plugging different ECS values into a so - called energy balance model, which scientists use to investigate possible climate scenarios.

Now, using sophisticated climate simulations unavailable in the 1980s, two atmospheric scientists recently modeled detonation of 100 Hiroshima - size bombs in a hypothetical war between India and Pakistan.

The student team investigated the spread of a hypothetical zombie virus using the SIR model — an epidemiological model that describes the spread of a disease throughout a population.

A similar model using a hypothetical swinging ape produced more lifelike motion.

Alessandro Vespignani of Indiana University has calculated the chance the virus will emigrate, using a model that combines detailed travel data, incubation times and the rate of increase of the epidemic, with a range of hypothetical, random travel events (PLoS Current Outbreaks, doi.org/vvd).

Using the results of their statistical analyses, the researchers then modelled a set of hypothetical flowers, whose attractiveness to hoverflies were then tested in Bangalore, Sikkim and Uppsala.

The research team used data from the published literature to model what would happen to a hypothetical group of 1,000 women who want the contraceptive implant after a recent birth.

It's why the use of VAM (Value Added Measures) can not contribute valid or reliable data to a teacher's effectiveness rating — because VAM is a predictive model based on comparing a set of actual student test scores against a hypothetical group of scores.

When asked to rate several ebook lending models — including hypothetical lending models, models that are currently in use, and models that employ embargo periods — a majority of respondents ranked only one as «reasonable.»

These net liabilities are calculated with an internal model using many scenarios to determine the fair value of amounts estimated to be paid, less the fair value of net future premiums estimated to be received, adjusted for risk and profit charges that the Company anticipates a hypothetical market participant would require to assume this business.

So all returns since Jan»99 or Jan»17 are actual, whereas all of the returns of the Models below are hypothetical (because they just show past returns using current funding vehicles, which changed in the past).

Moreover, ACRIM composite uses the data as they are published, while the other two composites alter the data with hypothetical models that might have large errors and might be wrong.

Since it is impossible to know which elements, if any, of these models are correct, we used an average of all 13 scenarios to approximate growth rates for the various energy types as a means to estimate trends to 2040 indicative of hypothetical 2oC pathways.

I recently calculated hypothetical future temperatures by plugging different ECS values into a so - called energy balance model, which scientists use to investigate possible climate scenarios.

«The point of the paper is to show a broad range of hypotheticals and use the model to demonstrate the economic impact, not to read tea leaves and try to precisely forecast future REC prices,» Divounguy said when asked about the basis for those assumptions.

«We're using the same climate models that we use to project 21st century climate change on Earth to do simulations of specific exoplanets that have been discovered, and hypothetical ones.»

This authentic exercise requires students to act as advocates, analyzing and arguing both sides of a hypothetical legal dispute, using procedures modeled after those employed before real - life international arbitration tribunals.

As our hypothetical model, we will use a fairly common car accident case involving the following basic facts:

Analyzed, designed, and developed business applications for hypothetical business using data and process modeling.

Using a similar logic, we first tested our hypothetical topographic model of the functional - anatomic organization of brain networks subserving social cognition (Fig. 1).